Re: Oracle versus MS Sql Server

"Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr_at_www.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:3bd9df1e$0$8358$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au...
> Funny: I thought of those immediately after I hit the send button.
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> How does getting those right fit in with Mr, Schneider's design
methodlogy?
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> "I will issue the create table statements knowing nothing about them, and
> you will monitor performance going through the floor as a result of the
> enormous amounts of row migration that will ensue".

It is a pity, that several posters in this newsgroup react by trying to make other posters look ridiculous. Not all succeed with this.

If you had read this thread carefully, you would have recognized that much of the discussion has been created by the inexact definition of the word "DBA". It was my understanding that DBAs are just responsible for "administering the database". Some of the DBAs, which are present here, obviously are not happy with the "A" in their title. They do more than just "administration".

I am thankfull to Mr. Suoto, as he pointed out, that in the past a "DBA" really meant more than just "administering the database". However, for several years this is no longer the case. Obviously Design Methodlogies is no longer a subject in the DBA-courses. So maybe a currently educated DBA is similar to what I intuitively thought.

As I learned, there are others, who do much more than just "administering the database". But maybe this not perfectly expressed in the abbreviation "DBA". Michael G. Schneider Received on Fri Oct 26 2001 - 17:59:41 CDT